Sports shorts: Hit parade for Booma in Legion win

LONDONDERRY — The bats came alive for Booma Post 6 on Sunday, as it banged out 20 hits and evened its American Legion record at 4-4 with a 19-9 win over Londonderry Post 27.

LONDONDERRY — The bats came alive for Booma Post 6 on Sunday, as it banged out 20 hits and evened its American Legion record at 4-4 with a 19-9 win over Londonderry Post 27.

The Booma offense was led by Danny Philbrick and T.J. Welch with four hits apiece, while Cam Hauze, Brian Hagan and Lucas Hartmann each recorded three hits.

James Haslam pitched seven innings for Booma, allowing nine runs while scattering 12 hits, with three walks and six strikeouts. Richard Riley pitched the final two innings, allowing no runs and one hit.

Booma opened the scoring in the top of the first when Riley doubled home Dillon Crosby and Philbrick plated Riley with a single. Booma batted around in the top of the third, scoring six runs on three hits and four walks, highlighted by a two-run triple by Welch.

Post 6 increased the lead to 12-1 in the fourth, as Welch drove in two more runs with a double.

Booma's next game is Wednesday at Nashua.

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Justin Rose got his mistake out of the way one hole early and won the Quicken Loans National in a playoff Sunday over Shawn Stefani.

Tied for the lead as he played the 18th hole at Congressional, Rose tried to hit through two trees left of the fairway and overturned the shot. It ran down a bank and into the water, and he had to hole a 15-foot bogey putt just to stay in the game.

Behind him, Stefani made bogey on the 17th and narrowly missed a birdie putt on the 18th to set up the first playoff in the eight-year history of this event.

And then it was Stefani who essentially repeated Rose's mistake on the first extra hole at No. 18.

After taking a drop because the grandstands blocked his view of the green, he wanted to play his low punch to the right side of the green. His shot also had too much turn and bounded into the water. Rose hit the middle of the green from the fairway and two-putted for par. Stefani made double bogey.

It was Rose's first win since the U.S. Open last summer at Merion, and it felt like he won another U.S. Open as tough as Congressional played. With putting surfaces that had a brown tinge to them, and thick rough all week, it was a far stronger test than when the Open was held in soggy conditions in 2011.

Rose and Stefani each closed with a 1-under 70 — only six players broke par in the final round — and finished at 4-under 280.

MIAMI (AP) — LeBron James went first. Dwyane Wade followed a few days later. And now Chris Bosh has made it a clean sweep.

The Big 3, for now anyway, are free.

And Pat Riley will soon have the chance to make the Miami Heat even better.

Bosh told the Heat on Sunday that he, like James and Wade, will be exercising the early termination option in his contract and forgoing the final two years on his Miami deal — making him a free agent. The move was not unexpected, and gives the Heat a gigantic amount of financial flexibility to shop with when the free-agent window officially opens at midnight Tuesday.

Bosh's decision was the last domino that the Heat needed to fall in order to free up the biggest amount of money possible heading into free agency.

"Chris is one of the most versatile and dynamic big men in this league, and he has been an instrumental key to our championship success over the last four seasons," Riley, the Heat president, said in a statement released by the team. "We look forward to meeting with Chris and his agent in the coming days to discuss keeping him in Miami for many years to come."

Riley expressed similar sentiments when James opted out Tuesday and Wade exercised his option Saturday.

SPARTA, Ky. (AP) — Count former Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs among those who has no problem with the team's name.

The NFL team that Gibbs led to three Super Bowl titles in the first of two stints as coach has been heavily criticized for its nickname that's viewed as derogatory toward Native Americans. A group of U.S. senators and President Barack Obama have suggested it should be changed, which team owner Daniel Snyder vehemently refuses.

Asked about the controversy before the NASCAR race Saturday at Kentucky Speedway, the Hall of Fame coach and racing team owner defended the Redskins name.

"Never once did I hear anybody ever say anything negative about the name Redskins," Gibbs said about his time with the team. "It was always prideful, it was courage involved. We have a song, 'Hail to the Redskins," and so everything, everything, about that name has been positive for me and my past."

Washington won Super Bowls in the 1982, 1987 and 1991 seasons. Gibbs also became a NASCAR team owner during that period and has gone on to win three Sprint Cup titles as well as the 1993 Daytona 500.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After Clayton Kershaw completed a spectacular month on the mound with yet another dominant victory, he struggled to muster much excitement about his performance or even the Los Angeles Dodgers' leap to the top of the standings.

Kershaw knows it's only June. But what a month it's been for the Dodgers and their incredible left-hander.

Kershaw struck out 13 during seven innings of five-hit ball, and Andre Ethier hit a three-run homer in the Dodgers' 6-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday.

Kershaw (9-2) extended his career-best scoreless streak to 28 innings in his first home start since throwing his first no-hitter June 18 against Colorado. He went 6-0 with an 0.82 ERA in June, yielding four runs in 44 innings and striking out 61.

"More importantly, we've just won every game," Kershaw said. "We're on a good run. In a long season, we'll go on a bunch of runs. We've just got to make sure the lowest points aren't as low."

The Dodgers have had nothing but high points lately: With 12 wins in 16 games, Los Angeles (47-37) has pulled virtually even with the slumping Giants (46-36) atop the NL West. The Dodgers were 9½ games behind San Francisco on June 8, but erased the entire deficit in three weeks.

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